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Social reformer who wanted to expose the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the 19th century

First to use flash powder to photograph interior views

Use photographic images as an instrument for social change

Showed side effects of Industrial revolution like Lewis Hine: child labor & miserable situation of immigrants

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Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine took a part of photographing this important movement in U.S. history.

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Raised awareness of the abuses of child labor. Then NCLC hired him as a sociologist to photograph children working in fields/factories/mines.

Public opinion then fueled which inspired Congress to enact national child labor legislation (his use of free speech awakened the conscious of Americans).

Lewis also proved a camera can be powerful to demonstrate harsh conditions of these children

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The Monumental Photo Series of Lewis Hine

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The Monumental Photo Series of Lewis Hine

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TIME Youtube Video

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Cotton Mill Girl: Behind Lewis Hine's Photograph & Child Labor Series | 100 Photos | TIME

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Italian Family in the baggage room, Ellis Island, 1905

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Italian Family in the baggage room, Ellis Island, 1905

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Lewis Hine worked at the Ethical Culture School in New York City, one of his assignments was to document immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. His goal was to have viewers have the same regard for contemporary immigrants as they had for pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock.

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Lewis's Ellis Island photos were shot with a Graflex camera and he had to overcome language barriers in the process of locating his subjects, finding an isolated place to shoot them, and setting the pose.

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One of the many children working in Carolina cotton mills, 1908. Most significant photo of Lewis Hine.

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One of the many children working in Carolina cotton mills, 1908. Most significant photo of Lewis Hine.

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On this year, Lewis was commissioned by the National Child Labour Comittee to begin documenting young workers across the country. At that time, children were regularly employed on family farms, but Lewis brought attention to their work as miners, mill workers, and oyster shuckers later lead to the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938.

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Boy running “Trip Rope” in a mine in Welch, West Virginia. September 1909. 

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Boy running “Trip Rope” in a mine in Welch, West Virginia. September 1909. 

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Photo taken by Lewis Hine.

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Girl working in Box Factory in Tampa, Florida. January 28, 1909.

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Girl working in Box Factory in Tampa, Florida. January 28, 1909.

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Photo taken by Lewis Hine.

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Picture Postcard 1910. Vintage Cliff House, San Francisco, CA

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Picture Postcard 1910. Vintage Cliff House, San Francisco, CA

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Shrimp Pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. St. Louis, Miss. March 3, 1911.

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Shrimp Pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. St. Louis, Miss. March 3, 1911.

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Photo taken by Lewis Hine.

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Pennsylvania Coal Breakers (Breaker Boys) in 1912. 

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Pennsylvania Coal Breakers (Breaker Boys) in 1912. 

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They would separate impurities of coal by hand. Lewis Hine said, “There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work”.

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One of Hine's most famous images, emphasizes machinery and musculature. The photo presents his position of the worker in a way he is controlling the machine.

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Derrick and workers on girder, Empire State Building in 1930-1931.

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Derrick and workers on girder, Empire State Building in 1930-1931.

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Hine shot men performing dangerous tasks on beams and hanging from wires. His intention of this photo was to show the reflection of the romantic beliefs and possibilities of America.

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He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s (taken for a federal government project), for his photographic essays for Life magazine,

Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912, Parks was drawn to photography as a young man when he saw images of migrant workers in a magazine. After buying a camera at a pawnshop, he taught himself how to use it

Gordon Parks was one of the most groundbreaking figures in 20th century photography. His photojournalism during the 1940s to the 1960s reveals important aspects of American culture, and he became known for focusing on issues of civil rights, poverty, race relations and urban life.

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Photographer and journalist Gordon Parks used his camera as a tool to help the world understand the experience of African-Americans in the U.S

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How self-taught photographer Gordon Parks became a master storyteller

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Ella Watson, Washington, D.C., January 1942.

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Ella Watson, Washington, D.C., January 1942.

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Parks approached a black charwoman who was cleaning the FSA ofﬁces. Her name was Ella Watson. She told Parks she had become pregnant out of high school, and that her husband had been shot to death two days before their second daughter was born. She was now working to support herself and her two grandchildren. This photograph is titled American Gothic, in which Watson poses coolly with a mop and broom in front of the U.S. ﬂag. Among the most famous pictures Parks ever took, it points to the complexity of his mature style.

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Parks was the ﬁrst black correspondent to work for the Ofﬁce of War Information, and one of his initial assignments was to photograph African-American pioneers of another kind: the ﬁrst unit of black fighter pilots to serve in the American Army’s Air Corps, as part of the 332nd Fighter Group—known more famously as the Tuskegee Airmen. This photo reveal Parks’ heartfelt admiration for the men, their mission, and their accomplishments.

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Gordon Parks often approached his subjects from below, placing the buildings that framed their lives as backgrounds rising behind them, and attempted to catch people looking askance in ways that suggest resilience.

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Red Jackson - Harlem Gang Leader in New York, 1948.

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Red Jackson - Harlem Gang Leader in New York, 1948.

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The ﬁrst story that Parks proposed to Life magazine was a piece on the gang wars that were consuming Harlem in the late 1940s. The great challenge was to gain to the trust of gang members. Parks found success when he met Red Jackson, a young black man who led a gang known as the Midtowners.

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Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950.

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Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950.

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A year after Life hired him, the magazine sent Parks back to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he had spent his ﬁrst sixteen years, attending the town’s small segregated schools. His main goal was to show the life of Detroit’s residents and in this photo, he shows a couple on a Sunday morning going to Church as they are dressed elegantly.

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Pastor Ledbetter, Chicago, Illinois, 1953.

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Pastor Ledbetter, Chicago, Illinois, 1953.

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During a 1953 trip to Chicago for Life, Parks returned to neighborhoods he had photographed in the 1940s, searching for subjects to illustrate an article that would be titled “The Modern Shouting Baptist.” His quest led him to the Reverend Ernest Franklin Ledbetter, pastor of the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, which he had photographed years earlier. Parks admired the pastor’s resolve, and the hours he spent each day at prayer with members of his congregation to help them endure the subjugation that many experienced in their jobs.

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Segregation in the South - Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956.

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Segregation in the South - Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956.

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In the wake of the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Life asked Parks to go to Alabama and document the racial tensions entrenched there. He would compare his ﬁndings with his own troubled childhood in Fort Scott, Kansas, and with the relatively progressive and integrated life he had enjoyed in Europe. In this photo, it demonstrates a sign that states “Colored entrance” which depicts the mother and daughter near the entrance that was designated for them at that time period because of segregation.

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Brooklyn, NY native Danny Lyon helped define a mode of photojournalism in which the photographer is deeply and personally embedded in his subject matter. A self-taught photographer and a graduate of the University of Chicago, Lyon began his photographic career in the early 1960s as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a national group of college students who joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions documenting the Civil Rights Movement.  The photographs were published in  The Movement, a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and later in Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Lyon’s own memoir of his years working for the SNCC.

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Cairo, IL. 1962 - An all-white swimming pool

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Cairo, IL. 1962 - An all-white swimming pool

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Photo taken by Danny Lyon.

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This photo by Danny Lyon shows the segregated water fountains and for the whites, their fountain is much larger.

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This photo taken by Danny Lyon depicts the police brutality with those who were of color in the 60s. One of high school student Taylor Washington's numerous arrests is immortalized as he yells while passing before me. The photograph became the cover of SNCC's photo book, The Movement, and was reproduced in the former Soviet Union in Pravda, captioned "Police Brutality USA."

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Cortland Cox, Phyllis Cunningham, and Worth Long at SNCC's Waveland conference, November 1965.

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Cortland Cox, Phyllis Cunningham, and Worth Long at SNCC's Waveland conference, November 1965.

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SNCC stood for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and it was a civil-rights group formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement.

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Recent photo of photographer, Bob Fitch.

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Recent photo of photographer, Bob Fitch.

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Cesar Chavez waves an American flag to counter Red-baiting during an organizing rally. To his right is Chavez confidant Marshall Ganz (wearing glasses). Directly behind the speaker (in plaid shirt) is Bill Kircher, AFL-CIO Director of Organizing and liaison to the UFW, and members of the Seafarers Union. Salinas, California, 1970. Through marches, strikes and boycotts, Chávez forced employers to pay adequate wages and provide other benefits and was responsible for legislation enacting the first Bill of Rights for agricultural workers. Photo taken by Bob Fitch.

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Meet Shirin Neshat & learn about her photography.

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Meet Shirin Neshat & learn about her photography.

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Interview with Shirin Neshat - Meet the Artist

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These photos of Shirin tells us about the deep roots of the 1979 Iranian revolution within the 21st-century lives of women and the oppression that religion and tradition impose on them. The work became famous for its daring take on femininity under male authority and the way women’s identity is being shaped by all the complex social forces.